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There are people who will argue that the coolest thing in baseball is the perfect game, but as a big a fan as I am of pitching, it's an event that has to take place over the course of an afternoon. If you're looking for something with more pop to it, I suggest the unassisted triple play, in which a single player on a single play retires a side that previously had nobody out.With runners on first and second in the fifth inning, Furcal made a leaping grab of pitcher Woody Williams' liner. The runners were going on a 1-1 pitch, and Furcal stepped on second base to double up Mike Matheny before tagging out Orlando Palmeiro as he made a futile attempt to scamper back to first.Note that every single one of these has been accomplished in the same way: catch the line drive on the fly, then tag second and the runner from first in one order or the other. (One of the runners, usually the one from first, has to be badly out of position, and that's not going to happen on a normal pop-up; with a line drive nobody thinks the ball is going to be caught, and nobody has time to react when it is.) |
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